Gallery Talk

From Washington to Lincoln in The American Wing

Sunday, July 28, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Lois Stainman

Gallery 534 (Vélez Blanco Patio) Show location on map

Investigate the Civil War through works of art in the collection, from Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware, painted ten years before the Civil War, to Augustus Saint-Gaudens's sculpture Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln).

This talk is held in conjunction with the exhibition The Civil War and American Art but does not tour the exhibition itself.

This program is made possible by The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts.

Free with Museum admission

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Bring your friends and chart your own course through the galleries as you participate in activities that connect you with works of art.

William Hogarth  (British, 1697–1764) | Scholars at a Lecture (detail), January 1736 | 91.1.35

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